Artist: Anca Munteanu Rimnic Exhibition title: Nest Venue: Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany Date: September 12 – November 22, 2015 Photography: Stefan Stark , images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Kunstverein Braunschweig Anca Munteanu Rimnic’s works derive from the aesthetic potential of the visible world’s things and systems. They make it possible to not only see connections vis-à-vis logic and historicality but also to grasp relationships in their brittleness. Her objects, photographs, videos and installations link personal and social stories and identities, allowing them their fragility by leaving them open-ended and negotiable. Anca Munteanu Rimnic finds a visual or allegorical access to objects and situations in everyday encounters. She develops […]

Artist: Patrick Van Caeckenbergh Exhibition title: Het Muziekbos (The Musical Forest) Venue: Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Date: September 6 – October 17, 2015 Photography: Peter Cox, images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Zeno X Gallery, Antwerp Het Muziekbos (The Musical Forest) is already the ninth solo exhibition of Patrick Van Caeckenbergh at Zeno X Gallery. In recent years, Van Caeckenbergh has continued to work with tremendous dedication on his project Drawings of Old Trees. At the Venice Biennale in 2013, a selection of these drawings was already shown in the Arsenale, followed by a showing in M Museum (Louvain, Belgium), the first presentation of the project in a […]

Artists: Spencer Ashby, Harm van den Dorpel, Bruno Zhu Exhibition title: Politics are personal Curated by: Domenico de Chirico Venue: Exo Exo, Paris, France Date: October 23 – 30, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Exo Exo, Paris Jacques Derrida (1930-2004), french philosopher. For Derrida the «animals issue» represents « the limit where all the other big matters arise and take form» […]. The seductive exhibition by Harm van den Dorpel faces the «issue». It happens in three ways. The first path is determined by the erotism of the shapes. The second is established within the generosity of the volumes. The third one, at last, is the meaty structure […]

Artist: Gabriele de Santis Exhibition title: We’re Short a Guy Venue: Valentin, Paris, France Date: October 22 – November 21, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Valentin, Paris PREFACE How will 2015 be preserved and then portrayed by time? What will remain of its language, its symbols and its aesthetic? How will the filter of time represent this historic transition? These are all questions that are hard to answer today. We lack the necessary critical detachment, for we are too closely involved in the creative and constructive process to understand what might become iconologic. Yet Gabriele De Santis’ vision appears to insist on these themes, with no fear of […]

Artist: Taocheng Wang Exhibition title: Massage Near Me Venue: Company, New York, US Date: October 18 – December 6, 2015 Photography: images copyright and courtesy of the artist and Company, New York After Lisa found out my age, she burst into laughter and stopped: “Oh my dear, you can be my auntie now! I really don’t understand you. I don’t get it. I feel … I feel that you are so alone, almost like a female version of the Himalayas … I mean … here and now, Yang, Lucy, we all have relationships and love … and you are so beautiful …. your life would be much easier if you had […]